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Devac  ·  971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rotamaks: Yet another ignored fusion technology

    A beam of material is shot into some plasma. As these beams of particles pass by, they “kick up” spinning loops of plasma.

Asking, though I'm sure it's something that was calculated and disregarded in the '80s, but since it'd influence local surface tension, couldn't you get a similar effect with with a laser directed near the 'bulging out' region?